Roller-bearing with regulator-collar



C. S. LOLCKWOOD.

' ROLLER BEARING wma REGULATOR COLLAR.

APPLICATLON FILED DEC-2. 1918.

1,324,838. PiltQllfQd Dec. 10,1919.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEAR-LES S. LOCKWOOD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HYATT ROLLER BEARING DIVISION, UNITED MOTORS CORPORATION, HARRISON; NEW JER SEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ROLLER-BEARING WITH REGULATOR-COLLAR.

To all whom niay concern:

Be it'known that I, CHARLES S. LOCliWOOD,

a citizen of the United States, residing at 496 Clinton avenue, Newark, county of Es- 5' sex, and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements ,.1n Roller-Bearings \Vltll' Regulator-Collars,

fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming apart of the same.

The premnt -mve nt1on relates to a roller bearing in which'the hub and easing are provided with opposed \cyIindi-ical seats to I -which therolls are fitted and upon which they are capable of sliding longitudinally;

and the object of the invention is to restrain and prevent the shifting of the rolls longi-- t-udinally upon the-hub, without forming the hub or casing with any integral projecting shoulder to engage the ends of the rolls.

, As asubstitute for such projecting shoulder,' the hub ofthe casing in the present in--- vention is provided with a so-called regula tor collar which isfittedlsnugly to'the .hubj so as to be retained in any adjusted positionthereon b friction, and the rolls intermediate to t eir ends are provided each with a groove adaptedrto embrace the edges of the collar and beheld thereby from ,end

.motion.

With 'suchzconstruction the rolls are held between the hub and casing by the frictional engagement of the regulator collar but can be pushed endwise of the hub and easing when required to inspect the rolls or to replace any injured rolls with new ones.

Such replacement is readily effected and the set of rolls can then, with its regulator collar, be pushed endwise of the hub to its working position.

, The bearing -is not intended to resist end-' thrust, and any pnsh'upon the regulator collar from either side, independent of end thrust, has only a nominal force as it arises solely from aslight tendency of any roll to move endwise, owing to the variability of the size and shape of the parts. or owing to any canting or tipping of the shaft and casino; in relation to one another when the bearing is in use.

End-movement of any roll in the bear ng while the cage is held in a definite position by the remaining rolls would produce a rubbing of the roll-ends. against the head of Specification of Letters intent. Patented Dec. 16', 1919.

2, 1918. Serial m. 264,918.

the cage and develop a frictional resistance avoided by the present inventmng to the movement of the rolls, and this-is The inventionwill be understood by ref- I erence to the annexed drawing, in which Figure 1 isan end vieiv of the bearing ready for'application to a shaft; Fig." 2 is an edgeon the line-P 4; Fig. 5 is-an end-view,-'and,

Fig;;6 anedge-view of the-regulator collar.

Fig. 7 'sa 5 d-vlewt'and Fig.8 a side-view view of the cage; Fi 3 is an edgeeview of the bearing upon-a s aft with the parts in" of the retaining-ring' for the rolls Fig. 9

is a side-elevation Of fOIl of the rolls. 3

The parts of this construction are wholly cheaply rapidly by automatic lathes the casing being a straight cylindrical shell 0 andFtlie-hubastraight cylindrical shell d endwith groove rectangularcross sec? tion bet-ween the-"T .ulatozt-eollar g is sh iiof cross section similar tothat'of the grooveejvhichistfitted thereto soas'to turn'easily as the r'ous nqwe,

about thehub r. I

The cage is shown with heads h' end int e vgral spacing-bars i to form sockets adaptedsection as the regulator collar is fitted to the groove at the outerside of'each roll, em-.

bracing al of their-necks, as..shown in the upper part of Fig. 4, when assembled upon the hub.

The division is in this retai 'mits it to be opened'toslide over the bodies .of the rolls frorn either en'd to-slip it into the hing-ring p'er- -95. so as to retain them' grooves e when the rolls are assembled in the chem;

Inspection of Fig. 3 shows that when the rolls arethusassembled the regulator collar is embraced by the sides of all the rolls,

pendently;

grooves upon the. innen and neither the rolls nor the collar can be applied to the hub inde o'f cyliiidrical form and' thus made very 1mv .to' admit upon. their outer sides the bodies of the rolls. A split ring i ofthe same crossi i 1 l g from the hub and casing; the retaining-1 mg The assemblage of the rolls inthe cage,

dwiththe collar and split ring, terms a univ tary which is capable of. siiding endwise over thehub to set it in its working position; and the regulator collar is fitted to the hub with sufiicient snugnes's to retain its necessity of unlockingzan fastening.

. the casing, d is then held h th ifif 1ocated: ?"This.ring also operates-e handling h sa 1s m ridianis The rolls are all in ependent of one another, and when an o;the rolls is injured the setyof rollszc'ane readily disengagedremoved and any or. all of the rolls, take By making-fithei: retaining-ring a littl larger than theiborefofjtheg casing, it can b compressed at the division" k to insertit due to its expansive-forcei'n anyosition to hold-the rolls-r-in-the-scage to"*faci 1itate casin roll-spaceb e'tween the hubialidcasing: is

. made of the same dimensions at both ends of the bearing, so that the rolls may-be pushed! into such roll-space from the end r me;

, casing;

' In such movement of the mu'thaei e the regulator collar and the retaining-ring yentiofiwhatis claimed herein is: 7

offer only a frictionahresistance and can thus be pushed to their working positioninwhich suchresistance operates usefully and effectively to keep the rolls from shifting toward the heads of the casing and generating friction thereat.

I am aware that a set of rolls having'a groove at the middle of their length have been used in a roller-bearing in connectionwith annular ribs or collars removable from the hearing but provided with looking de-' vices which are necessary to secure them in an operative position and winch requlre release before the rolls can be removed for inspection.

I wholl disclaim any means for looking a guide-collar or ring upon a hubvor casing,

asm invention is designed especially to simp ify'the construction and operation of the-bearing; and to avoid'the expense of zproriding lockingimeans, and the delay of d sengagmgthem when the rolls require inpect-ion.

retained: thereon by :Eriction'only; a set of rolls-fitted to the hub having. each a groove g Y a 1+..- v embracing-the edges of the collar, acasing It will .be understood thaty the annular cage inclosed wholly within the casing, havfitted to the'outer sides of the rolls, and a ingheads connected by spacing-bars, intermy hand; a CHARLES S. LOGKWOOD.

aving-thus settorth the nature of the ini: V v InIaroller bearing, the combination, with I the huh having a continuous cylindrical seati for the rolls, of a regulator collar fitted snugly and remo'vably upon the -said huband 

